As I wrote here,

"VOYAGER: Tombstone Without a Date"

I just watched the Shin-Evangelion movie version on Amazon Prime because I wanted to hear the song.

(I watched the video while coding, but I was able to clear up a couple of code concerns.)

Well, as it turns out, I didn't understand a single millimeter of this global masterpiece of animation until the very end.

It's a shame that I don't have the receptors to understand, but I can't help it.

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On a similar note, I recently re-read Sakyo Komatsu's "The End of the Endless Stream" for the umpteenth time in as many years.

When a section of notes from Time and Awareness, written by the main character, appeared in the last chapter of the book, I felt so nostalgic that I almost swooned.

I scribbled this passage on the wall of my room in the university dormitory.

Looking back, that was the starting point of my devotion to "time and space.

And when I think of how this is connected to the content of my recent column on quantum mechanics, I am deeply moved.

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Then, in the epilogue scene, "An unidentified person in distress who has been asleep for 50 years awakens in 2016," I felt like I had been struck dumb.

-- the first draft of "The End of an Endless Stream" was written before I was born

-- The first time I finished this book was when I left my tent as a high school sophomore touring alone, with rays of light in the form of a direct hit from the eastern horizon and a carpet of clouds spread out at my feet.

-- And that I continue to exist now, beyond the "tremendous" future time and space of "2016," which was unimaginable at the time.

I am confused and bewildered by this fact.

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I'd like to watch "The End of the Endless Stream" made into a film, but the "Lukif" in me is trying to stop me from doing so, that is the embodiment of resistance to all vectors of change...